All projection is a denial of the truth that "I am as God created me" (T-31.VIII.5:2). Projection is always an attempt to generate alternatives to reality. We want to remake ourselves and remake the world in our image. Then we'll be happy. Then we'll know peace.
In the presence of our Creator and in the glory of Creation - in which we lack nothing, and are everything - we insist that we can and will do better.
We are confused and our confusion is causing us and others pain.
There is a better way.
Ego is the part of our mind which argues that our devotion to "alternatives to reality" is rational. After all, mitigating suffering is good. Do we not have the right - nay, the duty - to push back on it?
This would make more sense if our suffering were actually caused by external factors falling within our control. But even granted the existence of an external world from which we are separate, everybody knows that it doesn't just hand you a lottery ticket. The best-laid plans . . .
Seeking peace on terms a body in the world recognizes is a fool's game that ensures we will never realize that peace that is actually already given to us, without qualification or condition.
Our real problem is not that the external world is so confusing and uncooperative when it comes to peace but rather that we are too scared to look for peace where peace is. Imagine not opening your presents on your birthday, then complaining about what you didn't get.
We're like folks with a broken leg who refuse to go to a doctor. We keep trying to force the world to be one where our leg isn't broken. Or where having broken legs is a good thing. But it doesn't work that way. And help is given as soon as we ask. Asking is how we learn it already is given.
When we accept that we remain as God created us, we are accepting a deep and profound truth about what we are. In the light of that truth, the limited egoic self, the vulnerable body and the alternately cruel and indifferent world dissolve like the unhelpful filters they are.
Everything is undone but love. Everything but love.
Peace is what we experience when we know that we are Love Itself. Beyond the body, beyond the world, and beyond the body's serial adventures in the world, is Love. Love is the Creator; we are Love’s creation.
Thus, happiness is what we experience when we live in full recognition and acceptance of God's Will, knowing that it is not separate from our will.
This is the movement of Love - Love being Love - and we are it.
When we accept that we are as God created us, then what is there to fear? What is there to be anxious or depressed about? What is missing?
Anxiety and depression are products of fear. It's not a crime against God to feel them; all our brothers and sisters have felt fear. We're not damned because it feels like something is missing from our lives.
It's just that there is a way to not feel these things.
That "way" is to find out what we are in truth, and then to live in harmony with that truth. This, it turns out, is the easiest thing in the world because we can only ever be what we are! Even when we think we are something we are not, we are still what we are.
This is not a trap, but a gift. It's like you've been taking an exam with life-or-death stakes, sweating it out in fear and duress, and the proctor comes along and says, "oh everybody passes just by showing up. You're good."
We're good.
Do you know what the hard part is? Accepting that there isn't any hard part. We are love; we love. Everything other than that is a fever dream. We don't have to give it a moment's thought.
You are as God created you, and God is not mocked. You’re good.
Love,
Sean
Beautifully articulated, thank you kindly. The tension required to project and defend is considerable versus the ease and freedom experienced when we consciously (and naturally) abide as the Love we already are. Om 🙏
That was totally amazing to read at this moment. I hope to receive more of these messages. It is so clear to understand. Simple helps me see.